Aug 04, 2023 • Filed to: Photo/Video/Audio Solutions • Proven solutions
Sometimes there arise certain circumstances when you are not able to access pictures from your old hard drive. Then you start applying several online techniques, but at the end of the day, you left yourself panicked. If this is your situation, you finally hit the right spot where you will be guided step by step on how to find pictures on old Hard Drive. It doesn't matter whether you want to find all the pictures on Hard Drive for Windows 7 or Windows 10.
There are several reasons why there arises a need for searching pictures when all are present in your Hard Drive or certain cases they are deleted accidentally? We will discuss the top 4 cases that will provide you an idea on the same.
There are several different reasons like:
If this is the case, there are many solutions to find all pictures on Hard Drive like using Recoverit, Recycle bin, Command prompt, Backup.
When you store pictures on your hard drive they are obtained from different sources, hence they vary in formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, etc. That means the number of images is generally too large. When in some cases they got corrupted or misplaced in some folders or subfolders, recovering them is not an easy task to perform.
But when it happens, File manager/Finder, command prompt/ terminal are the best solutions.
There arise some situations when your hard drive is not showing up pictures even though they exist in your Hard Drive. Several factors led to this situation like,
In these situations, the File Explorer and control panel is the best solution.
This case comes under the rare category in which pictures can't be recovered easily, the different reasons for the crash are:
Now how to find pictures on old Hard drives becomes a concern?
Well, the solution is to use Recoverit, Running Scan Disk CHKDSK and system restore in safe mode.
There arise several situations when you lose your pictures from your hard drive or they get deleted. Before we go in further detail it is crucial to mention here that these images are not deleted permanently. Also, if they are misplaced in some folder or some subfolder it is easy to locate. The only thing you need to do is just follow the guideline that we are providing you with images and you will get your task done. These guidelines will help you find all photos on Hard Drive for Windows 7 as well as Windows 10.
Sometimes your photos are there in the Hard Drive but you can't open them. There also arises some cases when you can't find your photos despite knowing they are in your Hard Drive itself. Some best solutions to overcome this situation are.
Recoverit Data Recovery is a hard drive data recovery software that helps you to recover lost data as long as they are not overwritten by other data. This software works both for windows and MAC.
For this just open Wondershare Recoverit as shown below,
Now to use Recoverit you just need to follow 3 simple steps given below:
Step 1: Select the Location
To recover images on a computer, it is necessary to choose a location where you have lost them.
Here, please select a hard disk under the "Hard Disk Drives" tab or Desktop under the "Select location" tab.
Click "Start" to begin the scanning on the selected location as shown below
Step 2: Scan the location
Recoverit will start an all-around scan. Usually, it will take a few minutes to finish the scanning. Sometimes, a few hours are required if many large-sized files are present. During the scanning process, you can also pinpoint files or stop scanning for your convenience. This process is shown in the image below:
Step 3: Preview and Recover Files
This is the last step in the recovery of your photos. Recoverit allows its users to preview the recoverable files before proceeding to the final recovery step. You can select targeted files and then click the "Recover" button to retrieve your files back. Here also there are some points you need to consider.
After getting a preview of the files and confirming they are what you want, you are all set to get them all back using Recoverit.
For this just directly hit on the "Recover" button to retrieve your lost photos back and choose a path to save the recovered files. One thing to consider here is, not to save the files to the hard drive where you have deleted or lost the data.
Recycle Bin stores your deleted files that can be restored easily to the location from where they were deleted. This is one of the easiest techniques to go with for finding all pictures on Hard Drive on Windows 7 and Windows 10.
This is also one of the safe techniques to find all pictures on old Hard Drive:
To open a command prompt for Windows 7, you can open the start menu - All programs - open accessories - click command prompt shortcut. For Windows 10 click on the start button at the lower-left corner for opening the menu then choose the command prompt. You can also press Windows + X.
Once the processing of the given command has been finished, a new folder will be generated on the drive to store all the recovered files, which will be in the .chk format. The formats of those files can be changed and you can save them to the location where you want. The CMD attrib command is mainly used to recover even permanently deleted files from CMD.
One of the best options to recover or to find all the pictures on the Hard Drive is to go with a backup option. For this just follow simple steps:
Your Hard Drive may contain many pictures of different formats. When it comes to the storage of pictures. They may be stored at different locations depending upon, where they came from. Windows itself stores images in your "Pictures" folder or the "Downloads" folder. In the case of MAC, these are usually stored in "Pictures".
For Finding Pictures:
Finder is used for quickly locating any file on your Hard Drive. To use it just click My PC in the file explore or Computer in the windows explorer. You can now go to the "downloads" or "pictures" section for your pictures. You can also enter the command kind:=picture in the search box. This will let you search all partitions on your Hard Drive for various image formats.
This command will recover all the files in the Hard Drive
Finding hidden pictures is not an easy task as you don't know where those pictures are placed, to make this task easy for you two solutions will work for you.
This is the situation where utter care is a demand, to recover your pictures. As once your hard drive is crashed you will not able to operate properly by connecting it to your PC.
We will provide you with simple techniques to do this job for you.
To make Recoverit Data Recovery, run on a Windows computer, double click on the "Wondershare Recoverit" icon on the Desktop and follow 3 simple steps given below:
Step 1. Select a location as shown below in an image.
Step 2. Scan the location as shown below
Step 3. Preview & Recover your lost pictures as shown below
Step 1. Start the computer in safe mode
Step 2. Now click Start menu - All programs - Accessories - System tools - System restore
Step 3. Choose your restore point and then click on next.
Step 4. Choose recommended restore option, if not working chose a different restore point
Step 5. Confirm settings and click next. You are done.
Step 1. Press Windows + X and select Command prompt as an admin
Step 2. Now type chkdsk and click enter.
Step 3. Now suppose your corrupted drive is c you can type chkdsk C:/f/r/x to fix errors and get your photos back.
Sometimes you have pictures on your computer that you don't want to be seen by others. In these situations, the best solution is to hide them where it becomes difficult or almost impossible for others to reach
Let us discuss 5 effective strategies.
This technique can hide your pictures from others and provide you an option to see, whenever you want. For this just
This is an easy and most secure method to hide your pictures. Just create an encrypted zip file and you can place it anywhere you want. It can't be opened by anyone until they have the right password with them.
In this process, the disguised folder is created that resembles Recycle Bin, Control panel, even fonts folder. The fact with this folder is one can't be able to see the real content of this folder even after opening. As when you open this folder inside Windows Explorer, that folder will open which corresponds to the real folder in appearance. but if you try to open the same folder through Disguise Folders, it will reveal the actual content in that folder.
This is one of the effective techniques to hide folders containing your pictures. It is embedding images into unsuspecting files like car images. Here when you double click container files, the picture of the car will open but internally it contains your hidden image
This is a simple yet effective technique
There arise certain conditions when you are unable to find your pictures on your old Hard Drive. Although it is a difficult process in this resolute dossier a step by step explanation is given that helps you to find all pictures on Hard Drive.
Eleanor Reed
staff Editor